Big Boy Bed!

"Testing" out his new big boy bed (is it tough enough to withstand the jump test? Let's hope so!)
Reading a story before bed. We had to take out the rocking chair to make room for the bed and the train table...so the floor it is!
Here he is asleep on his first night (with his gazillion buddies). Yes, it was dark in there, we have a great flash!
Thanks Nana and Popaw for his first "big boy" bed!

Christmas and cookies

First fire of the year
Gabe's first "Christmas present". He got this train table from the family that I work for (used). It will eventually go in his room, but we just put it here for today. In his words, he was "so cited!" He even did a crazy little dance when we said we were going to bring it in the house. I wish I would have gotten that on video!
Making Christmas cookies!!! Gabe helped to make the sugar cookies...
...then cut them out...


...then decorate them!
And then eat them! This was "Bob the tomato".
Then decorate some more. =)

Heard Museum

A while ago I won some tickets on the radio for the Heard Museum in McKinney. It is a semi-small science museum and wildlife sanctuary. We had never been there before. Our tickets expired at the end of this year, so we figured this was probably our last weekend to go! Gabe has been asking to go to the "dinosaur museum" for quite awhile. This was his favorite part of the whole thing...the dinosaur dig sand pit. He would have been happy to stay there all day. I forgot the camera, so all these were taken with my cell phone.


They had nine life-sized, moving, "talking" dinosaurs! We didn't know that they moved or made noise until we got there. Gabe did NOT like that they made noise. He startled every time they growled. I think they were a little too life-like for him. He wanted to keep moving so they wouldn't "get him". None-the-less, he enjoyed it. He said the dimetridon (sp?) was his favorite.


We managed to get a few smiles out of him. =) Afterwards, we found out (thanks to the GPS!) that there was a Culvers just 2 miles away. On the way home, we stopped at a local college to see some of our relatives (Jeremy, Angela, and Trevor) who live a couple hours away, but were here for a soccer tourneyment. Good day...another late nap for Gabe.

Getting ready for Christmas

First a shutterfly update: I wrote that previous post in order to get the free card, but thanks for those that gave their input! I got the code and ordered my cards, so they are on their way to us.

This morning, we went and saw Santa at our church (yes, we have our very own Santa!). These are the pictures we got. Gabe told Santa he wants Duck the train (from Thomas) and a stuffed giraffe. Why these particular things were on his mind today, I have no idea. =)

This is just a close up of the same picture above.
After seeing Santa we went to get our Christmas tree. We'll decorate tonight.

I'm still a newbie blogger: try #2 Shutterfly

I usually do homemade Christmas cards. Or, at least I did... It's not going to happen this year. I can't believe it's almost December already. So, SHUTTERFLY is doing a promotion this year that bloggers can receive 50 free Christmas photo cards, and you all know I love free!!! I also love Shutterfly's photo books. I like to keep my memories in an organized fashion, but I am not a scrapbooker! The books are easy, fast, and great- looking! I have done photo cards on Shutterfly before, but not for Christmas. I would love to have some advice on which card to pick. Keep in mind, I'm experimenting here, so if the images don't come up, I guess I'll have to try again!

I like this one:

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and this one:

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Here are the wide variety of choices they have for Christmas cards:
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

or holiday cards of you prefer:
http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards

They do photo calendars too! I made one of these for a gift last year:
http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars

So, anyway, I'm going to be making some great cards this year. Maybe with this picture?


I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas preparations! If you need any cards, check out Shutterfly.com! You know everyone loves to get an updated picture for Christmas! And if you have a blog and want to join in on the free card celebration, click on this link:

http://bit.ly/sfly2010

And check your mail for my card, coming soon!

Happy Halloween!

Carving the pumpkins last night

We went to two festivals tonight. The first one was at the church our friend Emma works at. They had lots of bounce houses, food and giveaways. Later, we went to the fall festival at our church. Gabe won the cake walk on our second try! Below he is picking a number to see what dessert he won.
Hooray for cookies!
We went trick or treating at a few houses after we got home. This is at our front door.
Our neighbor, Sarah's house, across the street.
On our way home again.

trip to Green Bay

Playing the fall leaves...something we can't really do here in Texas!



Sleeping in his "big boy" bed (thanks for giving it up Uncle Matt!). And he only fell out once!
Walking to the park with Grandpa

Do you think Gabe got enough attention?




Sorry for the multiple swing pictures. He was having a blast!

Sunday night Packer game!!!! Soooo much fun!